Tom Hardy grabs moped thief after chasing him through gardens and building site then proudly announcing ‘I caught the c***!’
SCREEN tough guy Tom Hardy nabbed a thief after a Hollywood-style chase in the street.

The backlash against Hollywood’s latest cauldron of coprolites (Mad Max: Fury Road) seems to have taken the mainstream media by surprise. Expecting the gullible (but reliable) male public to dine from Hollywood’s usual trough of trash, they were rocked back on their psychic heels by manosphere calls for a boycott of the movie.

(Personally, I’ll admit to a grudge against the movie from the beginning. No one, in my view, has any right to be behind the wheel of the “last of the V-8 Interceptors” except Mel Gibson. And I’ll bet you he could still have pulled it off in 2015. Where are ye, Mel? We still love ye.)

Jung’s theory hasn’t crossed my radar in a long time, but a recent film made it suddenly relevant. The film Mad Max: Fury Road seems to be an eruption of suppressed anxieties about society’s mass fascination with homosexuality. The final cut is likely at odds with the progressive beliefs of its creative team, at least as individuals. I can’t imagine Charlize Theron ever publicly disagreeing with the Human Rights Campaign or with Mary Bonauto. Bonauto is the attorney who eagerly told the Supreme Court that same-sex parenting, including arrangements concocted through surrogacy, is beyond reproach.

The dystopian images of Fury Road depart significantly from the Mad Max films of the 1970s and 1980s. Fury Road presents us with a world where motherhood is commodified to suit an elite class of males who wish to share their property and life ambitions only with other men. Women are hooked up to machines that pump milk from their breasts and held inside dismal barracks, gestating heirs for warlords who show no sexual interest in women. The men of this warrior ruling class derive all their ecstasy from the company of muscular young males eager to labor and soldier for each other and for their male patrons.

A relentless two-hour assault both on the eardrums and the eyeballs, Mad Max: Fury Road is the craziest film of the year so far – and one of the loudest of all time.

For anyone missing Top Gear, here it is on steroids. Really, really strong ones. Even Jeremy Clarkson might recoil from the stench of testosterone.

Australian director George Miller, who invented the whole concept of post-apocalyptic road-rage with the original Mad Max trilogy, again orchestrates affairs, this time with British star Tom Hardy in the title role first taken, in 1979, by Mel Gibson.

He has some big shoes to fill as he replaces Mel Gibson in the upcoming reboot of the iconic 1980s Mad Max film franchise.

But Tom Hardy looks more than up to the task.

The 36-year-old British actor puts in a spirited performance as he gets taken captive by desert warriors and tortured in the first trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road released on Sunday at Comic-Con in San Diego.

TOM Hardy must be nursing some blisters. The Dark Knight Rises star has been putting in gruelling free-running training for his role in the new Mad Max film.
A source said: “Producers told him it would be worthwhile as there are loads of action sequences in the film that will see Tom bouncing off tough objects.”

Tom takes over from Mel Gibson in the role of Max Rockatansky in the film which is currently being shot in Namibia.

The movie is the reason he grew that straggly beard which he managed to trim for the London premiere of The Dark Knight Rises a couple of weeks back.